US to Withdraw Again From UN Human Rights Council, End Funding to UNRWA

WASHINGTON—The United States will withdraw again from the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and end funding to the U.N. agency dealing with Palestinian refugees, a White House official told The Epoch Times. The United States withdrew from the UNHRC and ended funding to UNRWA, or the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, in 2018. The Biden administration reversed both moves in 2021, though it paused funding to UNRWA in 2024 due to allegations that several UNRWA employees were involved in Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. Those employees have been fired. The UNHRC and UNRWA have come under fire by critics who say that both have expressed hostility toward Israel....